Re: "Linux Knowledge Base"

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812261526060.27109-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
>  aturner@best.com writes:
> >> Is 'Dr. Tux' a widespread thing, or something we thought of?
> >
> >I don't think we should use something generic like "Dr. Tux" or "Dr.
> >Linux", for exactly that reason.  Nothing is new under the sun as far as
> >names goes anymore.  Make what we add to it mean something or we'll end up
> >assocaiting ourselves with something we don't like.
> 
> Well, if that's the only other dr tux around, I'm sure you guys can
> coordinate and decide on a single logo. Then he can be in both places.
> We're all friends here.

Definately.  It's just that while I don't have any proof, I find it hard
to believe that no one else uses "Dr. Tux".  I did a search via Yahoo, but
couldn't find a query string that didn't result in 500+ or 0 hits.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of Dr. Tux, Dr. Linux, Prof. Tux or things
like that... kinda childish/unprofessional to me.
 
> >Personally I'd go with "The Linux Knowledge Base Org" or with Roger's
> >permission, "The Linux Knowledge Base by SEUL".  Basically, assoicate
> >ourselves with ourselves or with something we know.
> 
> Er, yeah, that could work. My instinct says that you can just sort of
> make a linux knowledge base, and it'll all work out. Especially if you
> can come to an agreement with the other place. I don't think anything
> can be decided really until you have the irc meeting with this guy.
> I might be able to make Monday 2200est, more likely Tuesday 2200est.

Agreed.  A lot depends on Cheek.  I don't care about the day, just as long
as it starts between 6-7PM PST (9-10 EST).  My only concern is that the
three members of the core group and Cheek shows up. I think we should
listen to what he has to say, ask some questions, answer his, and then
meet privately to discuss the situation and make our decision.  Anyone
beyond the core group is an extra bonus.

> I don't really have a good feel for how many people know about
> seul. I suspect it's rather a large number, given that we were in
> the halloween2 document. I've been doing my best to make seul an
> 'established' project, but I don't have any objective idea of how
> many people know about us. But if you wanted to associate yourself
> more closely with seul (and you think that would gain you something),
> go for it.

Well I for one never had heard about SEUL until Micah told me about you a
few months ago.  How long has SEUL been around?  I consider myself "in the
know" regarding Linux, being a regular of slashdot, freshmeat, and lwn,
not to mention using Linux since early 1.1.x.  I know there's a lot of
things going on that I'm not aware of, but I was surprised to find that
such a large project had avoided my eye/ear for the past few years.

> As for defining 'atomicity', basically an operation is atomic when
> it happens all at once. That is, nothing can happen concurrently
> with it (or if something is concurrent, then one of them happens
> then the other (or at least, it looks and behaves that way from the
> outside)), so you don't have to worry about locking issues, etc.
> MySQL's pretty good about that.

Ok, now I get it.  Sounds great to me- should make things a lot easier to
code.

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